Are Your Internal Fluidics Crummy and Fouled?

8.18.2015

Written by: Zach Devier

Hello! Zach Devier of SMT here with another blog, for your viewing pleasure. We’ve recently been spending quite a bit of time following up with all of the wonderful people that we met at the AACC Clinical Lab Expo we attended in July. One of the issues that continues to pop up is the bio-fouling of internal fluidic systems.

Lab and Clinical Equipment

Selective Micro has developed products and protocols to decontaminate the most popular high-throughput laboratory equipment on the market today. Selectrocide® is used by companies like Abbott, Roche, Dade Behring and Beckman Coulter to perform over 25,000 decontaminations annually. Equipment includes chemistry, immunoassay and hematology analyzers.

Selectrocide® is effective against a broad range of microbes including bacteria, viruses, yeast, mold, and spores. Unique advantages include:

Decontaminate in as little as 1 hour, including flush-out

Clean water lines, tanks, loops and unwetted surfaces (head spaces)

Strip biofilm so lines remain clean longer, reducing recontamination

Does not create undesirable/toxic by-products of reaction with organics

Neutral pH is gentle on sensitive equipment

Differentiation:

Unlike bleach or peroxide, Selectrocide® rinses rapidly, leaving no residue, and is significantly less corrosive to system components because of greater efficacy at lower concentrations and neutral pH. In most applications Selectrocide® is non-corrosive.

Benefits:

Minimize downtime; engineers maintaining equipment eliminate the need to wait up to six hours for bleach to decontaminate their systems.

Reduce time and expense of emergency service calls caused by the presence of biofilm.